Safety Week Activities

Safety Week 2018 Company Activities

The Health and Safety Authority

Ahead of Construction Safety Week 2018, the HSA invites you to attend their half-day seminar on improving health and safety procedures in the construction sector.

This seminar will focus on three key topics of relevance to those involved in construction namely work at height, construction work related vehicles and dangerous substances.
Attendees will gain an insight and understanding of the key risks in each of these areas and how they may be controlled through pre-planning activities and adopting safer working practices.

The seminar is an ideal way to kick start your Safety Week plans. Register for free by following this link or email pressoffice@hsa.ie

Collen Construction

Clive Kelly Safety Ltd

We will be promoting construction safety week with our customers and we will email and encourage companies to make an effort and to take part to promote safety in the workplace.

Please see www.clivekelly.ie for more information or email Clive at clivekelly@clivekelly.ie

The CIF thanks Clive Kelly who has generously filmed Vehicle Safety Walk Arounds with CIF Safety Director, Dermot Carey to aid companies on Vehicle Safety Day on Friday October 26th as part of the Safety Week campaign. These videos are available to all, free of charge on the Safety Week Videos Page

Castlethorn

Castlethorn will be actively promoting and participating in Construction Safety Week 2018. The Safety Week videos were shot on location in our Brighton Wood Development in Foxrock. It was a pleasure to host the crew for the shoot. We look forward to receiving these videos daily and sharing across all our social media platforms.

What Castlethorn are doing to promote Safety Week 2018:
Displaying the promotional posters on each site
Tool box talks daily on each topic
Sharing and promoting Safety Week 2018 & each topic across all our digital platform
Promoting and reinforcing Castlethorn’s Health & Safety policies to all staff
Promote continuous improvement in all areas of Health & Safety

The best safety standard ensure we all go home safely each day.

Leo Lynch

We are proud to partner with the CIF for Construction Safety Week (CSW) 2018 and will be actively involved in promoting the themes for each day, including European Agency for Health & Safety at Work ‘Manage Dangerous Substances’.

We will engage our Chain Supply to ensure Leo Lynch continue to demonstrate best practice in health and safety.

Mulcahy Construction Ltd

In support of Construction Safety Week 2018, Mulcahy Construction Ltd. will be taking the CIF Safety Week as as an opportunity to highlight the hazards and risks across all our sites and promote and enhance our safety culture moving forward.

This will be achieved through the following activities that will take place over the course of the week:

Circulate and post copies of the CIF safety week daily themed posters at prominent locations on all our sites.

John Flanagan Developments Ltd.

Will have all our staff view the daily videos and give tool box talks on the topics.

Mulcahy McDonagh & Partners Ltd (MMP)

MMP will be using Construction Safety Week as an opportunity to highlight the hazards and risks on a construction site, and promote a positive H&S culture from our office.

Throughout Safety Week 2018 MMP plan to:

– Discussion the daily topics of safety week 2018
– Circulate a copy of the CIF safety week daily topic posters
– Have a safety briefing focused on personal safety precautions when visiting construction sites
– Discuss the positive role the PQS can make at tender stage to minimise risks during the construction, and to the end user

Townlink Construction

Townlink Construction intend to run various training sessions across all of our project on various topics including:
Working at heights.
Operator Wellbeing
Hazardous chemicals.
Plant / People segregation
Housekeeping

While we will be focusing on the main topic headings, we will also be placing a focus on the following:

Operative participation and engagement.

Safety promotion.

Working together as a team.

Enhancing our safety culture.

Encouraging each other both as individuals and as contractors.

as well as others depending on the site.
It is hoped to roll out our new Site Induction video during safety week also.

Olive Safety

To get into the spirit of Construction Safety Week, Olive Safety will be offering massive discounts on all of our safety training to include free Safe Pass , free MEWP and free Manual Handling to the Construction Industry and we will be promoting and offering other online / digital platform based training which we will be announcing over the course of Construction Safety Week. You can contact Olive Safety at info@olivesafety.ieolivesafety.ie/

Hunnebeck

We would love to set up a safety talk in collaboration with our customer Greeneform.
Hünnebeck is an internationally renown formwork supplier specializing in wall and slab formwork, shoring systems and safety equipment for a wide range of infrastructure, residential, commercial and industrial construction projects.
Dating back to 1929, Hünnebeck is one of the industry’s best known and well-respected suppliers for formwork and shoring.
We are very excited to be part of the Construction Safety Week.

KORE Insulation

1. Daily Toolbox Talks – Bringing everyone in the factory together daily to talk about safety on the floor and update on our progress to achieving ISO 45001 in January.
2. Hazard Hunt – A challenge for employees to spot the hazard and amend the situation so it doesn’t happen again.
3. 5 S’s – Everything in it’s place and a place for everything! The team will focus on one ‘S’ per day.
4. Safety quiz for all employees and a prize for the winner with the most correct answers!

We’ll be sharing our experience on our social media channels throughout the week.

Cahalane Brothers Ltd

King & Moffatt

King and Moffatt are delighted to work in partnership with the CIF in achieving their mission for Construction Safety Week 2018.
It’s the perfect opportunity to involve staff from all levels of the organisation in promoting a safety and health culture among the workforce.
Initiatives will involve the delivery of toolbox talks reflecting the daily theme across K&M sites as follows: 1. Work at Heights 2. Mental Health and wellbeing 3. Electricity and utilities 4. Hazardous Substances 5. Managing Vehicles.

Duggan Brothers

We intend to run with the topics allocated to each day as part of Safety Week and also promote healthy eating on our sites as part of the Positive Mental Health focus.

We intend to do daily workshops/Tool Box Talks on site encouraging participation from sub contractors and workforce alike.

Elliott Properties Ltd (EPL Construction)

EPL are delighted to have the opportunity to be involved in the Construction Industry Federation and Construction Safety Week 2018. Having been involved in Safety Week for the past 5 years we can appreciate the positive influence these safety weeks have on all involved.

Effective Health and Safety Management is foremost priority for EPL. EPL has a proactive approach to Safety, making education, training and Health and Safety Awareness and integral part of our company. EPL have achieved a Grade ‘A’ in our recent Safe-T-Cert recertification audit.

We will in addition to our normal safety procedures for the week include the following involving all staff across all aspects of our company:

– Have a safety suggestion box on each site to invite suggestions and observations from all site staff on how health and safety culture can be improved.

Walls Construction

Walls Construction Program of Events

8AM. STAND DOWN ON ALL PROJECTS FOR ALL PERSONNEL BEFORE WORKS COMMENCE FOR THE WEEK. THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO EXPLAIN WHAT CONSTRUCTION SAFETY WEEK IS ABOUT, THE EVENTS TAKING PLACE OVER THE WEEK AND THE REQUEST COMMITTMENT TO ATTEND EVENTS TAKING PLACE.

CIF CONSTRUCTION SAFETY WEEK VIDEOS SHOWN ON ALL PROJECTS DURING THE WEEK.

LAUNCH OF THE COMPANY HEALTH AND SAFETY THEMED CHILDREN’S ART COMPETITION WITH EASONS BOOK TOKEN PRIZES FOR 1ST, 2ND AND 3RD IN EACH CATEGORY. WINNERS WILL BE SELECTED FOR THE 2019 CALENDAR.

GREAT CATCH VOUCHERS TO BE AWARDED ON ALL PROJECTS DURING THE WEEK WITH VOUCHERS TO BE PROPORTIONALLY DISTRIBUTED ACROSS ALL PROJECTS. VOUCHERS TO BE PRESENTED BASED ON BEST PRACTICE PERFORMANCE IN RELATION TO THE DAILY THEME.

12 PM STAND-DOWN ON ALL PROJECTS FOR 1 MINUTE TO COMMEMORATE THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED OR LOST THEIR LIVES IN OUR INDUSTRY.

POSTER DISPLAYED ON ALL PROJECTS BASED ON THE DAILY TOPIC.

DAILY THEMED EVENTS ON ALL PROJECTS.

ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE SUPPLY CHAIN TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN ALL EVENTS AND TO RUN THEIR OWN.

TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE ON ALL PROJECTS ARE INVOLVED IN THE EVENTS WE ORGANISE WITH A VIEW TO RAISING AWARENESS AND FURTHER IMPROVING HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARD ON OUR PROJECTS.

Alanna Homes

Working with our Health & Safety Consultants Ayrton Group with activities on site throughout the week.

Kilcawley Construction

Kilcawley Construction are delighted to once again partner with CIF Construction safety week. The week will be used as an opportunity to highlight good safety practice that is currently being used and to highlight the importance of Health & Safety for all team members and supply chain members.
We will be carrying workshops and tool box talks throughout the week based on particular safety hazards related to the projects.

PJ Hegarty & Sons

PJH are proud to partner with CIF for construction safety week to ensure our industry promotes the best safety standards.

We will kick start the week with the launch of our yearly company safety week poster.

All PJH site projects will have their own scheduled events for CIF safety week.

Some of these will include:

Daily tool box talks and safety posters in line with the CIF safety week topics

Guest speakers promoting mental health and wellbeing

Work at height rescue simulations

Plant and equipment safety demonstrations relating to work at height equipment and site vehicles

Underground utilities investigation demonstration

Is your car winter ready? – Tyre and light check demonstration and the safety importance of vehicles being fully functional

Safety videos and workshops

Orona Mid Western Lifts

Orona Mid Western Lifts will be using Construction Safety Week as an opportunity to reiterate not only the hazards and risks associated with lift insulation’s, but also the hazards of other on going works that may lead to potential hazardous situations on construction sites.

Further to this Orona Mid Western Lifts wish to take the opportunity to help promote a positive H&S culture throughout our organisation and among all our sub contractors by holding daily briefings and discussing the topics of safety week 2018.

L&M Keating

L&M Keating are committed to ensuring the highest standard of health and safety through its activities.
We are committed to ensuring that Safety Health and Wellbeing remains an integral part of our business development and function. L&M Keating are delighted to work in partnership with the CIF in achieving the mission of Construction Safety Week 2018
Reduce accidents on construction sites in Ireland
Increase awareness of the importance of being committed to safety & health… every day.
Inspiring all of us to share best practices and to work together to strengthen our industry’s safety culture and celebrating safety achievements to date
As part of L&M Keating’s commitment to the success of a Construction Safety Week that will enhance employee, safety, health and wellbeing, a number of addition safety and wellbeing awareness activates will be under taken.
Special Guest Speaker – Matt Kent, Mind MATTress – mental health
Good catch engagement
On Site Displays – Sites will demonstrate
• Importance of appropriate working at height equipment selection including harness selection and fitting.
• Fall from height leading to Water rescue with CPR and MEWP rescue displays
• Location and protection of utilities above and below ground
• Methods of identifying, substituting and protection against hazardous substances
• Plant and pedestrian management, Safe Zone transmitter and tag demonstration
• Driving for work and fatigue management
Daily toolbox talks and audio visual presentation on selected construction safety week topics
Displaying of Construction Safety Week Topic Posters
Increased safety inspections with specific focus on heights, hazardous substances, plant, equipment and occupational health
Senior management Director and contract manager auditing

Winthrop Engineering Ltd (Waterford)

Winthrop Engineering Ltd., are very proud to work in partnership with the CIF and to collaborate in re-enforcement of the mission of Construction Safety Week 2018.

We are committed to maintaining the highest EHS standards on all our projects and we believe that innovation comes from ‘individuals and teams’ and we continuously and actively encourage ‘all’ staff members to provide differing points of view for increased safety performance and as such we will be running ‘theme specific safety workshops and toolbox talks including;

Monday, 22nd October – Working Safely at Height

Tuesday, 23rd October – Positive Mental Health talk for all site personnel with Richard Burke of Resilience Matters

Wednesday, 24th October – Working Safely Near Utilities

Thursday, 25th October – Working Safely with Hazardous Substances

Friday, 26th October – Working Safely with Vehicles

Winthrop Engineering & Contracting Ltd (Dublin)

Day 1 Monday 22nd October

Stand down to explain the background to Construction Safety Week and engage all site supervisors in the activities during the campaign.

Daily High Risk Activity focus area Silica Dust.

Daily High Risk activity focus Ground disturbance.

Day 2 Tuesday 23rd October

External supplier MEWP Basket Rescue Demonstration.

Daily High Risk Activity focus area Manual Handling.

Day 3 Wednesday 24th October

Mental Health awareness in the construction industry briefing .

Daily High Risk Activity focus area Safe Driving.

Day 4 Thursday 25th October

External Guest Speaker – work accident.

Daily High Risk Activity focus area Work At height.

External Supplier safety demonstration – Work at height.

Day 5 Friday 26th October

Health & Safety Quiz

Prizes awarded for best Dont Walk by and Quiz winner

Alexion

Over the 5 day week various demonstration will be held on site site such as

Fall arrest system safety demo
Special guest (James Gory) to do a site presentation (TBC)
Silica dust safety demo
Safety Quiz with prizes

Ashview Consultants

Ashview Consultants are delighted to be working again this year with CIF and bringing Construction Safety Week 2018 to the forefront, We have a packed agenda for the week collaborating with some fantastic companies like:

John Paul Construction

Trim Formwork

Structuretone

Rattigans

Flynn Management Contractors

McGarrell Reilly

Cafferkey Civil Engineering Contractors

J Ryan Group Demolition

We plan to:

– Hold toolbox meeting daily on various sites

– Display on site the CIF safety week topic poster

– Share all toolbox session on social media

GMC Utilities Group Ltd

GMC plan to carry out the following during Construction Safety Week:-

Deliver tool box talks across all sites on the daily topics with specific focus on Working Safely near Utilities

Circulate the Daily topic posters across all GMC sites to raise awareness & promote the Construction safety week to our employees and subcontractors.

J Coffey Construction Ltd

J COFFEY CONSTRUCTION are proud to partner with the CIF for Construction Safety Week (CSW) 2018 and will be hosting the following:

People v Plant (A visual display promoting practical awareness on blind spots and working in close proximity to plant)

Face Fit testing demonstrations.

Special Guest speaker Gary Gallagher on Falls from Height.

Flynn Management & Contractors

We at Flynn Management & Contractors are delighted to partner with the CIF for Construction Safety Week again in 2018.

With our mission of ‘Working Safely Together ‘ we commit to working with our workforce, clients and contractors to promote the themes of CIF Safety Week holding a number of events across all our projects.

Crown Roofing & Cladding

We have a week of activities planned in an attempt to raise awareness of health and safety. We will hold daily tool box talks to focus on safety in the workplace and we will focus on the health and well being of our staff with a particular focus on mental health.

We have Guest Speakers coming in to speak to us about safety, mental health and well being. We will finish off the week with a Quiz for staff which will ask questions about all the topics covered throughout the week. A very nice prize is planned for the winner!

Ardmac

Ardmac are proud to partner with the CIF for Construction Safety Week 2018 and are delighted to be actively involved in promoting industry best standards.
In addition to the CIF daily topics, we continue to roll out our participation based Safety First programme, with focus on;

Fiontar Safety Management Ltd

We would like to set up a day for anyone from the construction industry to come have a chat with a Mental Health Professional – fully confidential – on 23rd October 2018 at our Dublin Office at 38 Fitzwilliam Street Upper, Dublin 2

MJ Conroy Construction

We will deliver tool box talks during the week, focusing on the daily topics.
Circulating the poster campaign across our various sites to help promote focus on site safety amongst staff and subcontractors.
Encourage employees focus on pre-work start hazard identification.
Extra prizes for our company ‘suggestion card / good catch’ initiative draws.

Waterways Ireland

Waterways Ireland intend to focus on the theme of a ‘Healthy Workplace’ for Construction Safety Week. Primarily, we are promoting awareness on how we work with and control hazardous substances. We will do this by:

Disseminate and publicise campaign materials to help raise awareness

Organise and deliver tool box talks highlighting the topic

Share good practices for the prevention of risks posed by dangerous substances

Take part in the European Week for Safety and Health at Work in October 2018

We will also focus on the theme of Health and how our employees can be affected through their day to day activities. Skills in hazard identification and risk assessment will be demonstrated as tools to prevent ill health in the workplace

Specialist Technical Engineering Services (STS Group)

We plan of running events everyday across all of our sites in Ireland and overseas, they will include presentations, toolbox talks, safety related demonstrations from suppliers, guest speakers.

EazySafe

Our vision is to create better workplaces by promoting cultures where safety, health and wellness of workers is at the forefront.

EazySAFE offer a range of environmental, health and safety training courses online. Since merging with our sister company Phoenix Safety, we also offer environmental, health and safety consultancy services and instructor-led (classroom) training.

JJ Rhatigan & Company

JJ Rhatigan is proud to partner with CIF and we will be participating across our sites and offices in the following ways:

We have installed large banners on all sites reinforcing our Commitment to CIF Safety Week. The CIF Safety Week poster campaign is also displayed prominently to promote this initiative amongst our employees and our subcontractors.

Our safety Week activities include:

Daily Tool Box Talks on the specific topic for each day making use of the online resources and presentations across all sites nationwide

Mental Health Awareness presentations by various organisations across all sites

ESB and Bord Gáis Energy presentations on working around utilities and emergency response on several sites

Face fit testing for subcontractor personnel, ‘Control of Silica Dust’, across all sites

We will share our progress throughout the week on our social media platforms.

JJ Rhatigan Building Contractors OHL

JJ Rhatigan – OHL Ireland (Joint Venture)

Arrangements for CSW include the following;

Print large banners advertising the upcoming event and display the CSW poster campaign on site to promote this initiative amongst staff and subcontractors.

Formal launch of Safety Week, Director address to the workforce.

Stand downs, hazard spotting and Tool box Talks on the topic of the day.

Video & PowerPoint presentations to the workforce.

Guest speakers for;

Monday – Mental Health,

Tuesday – Road Safety,

Thursday – Working at Height.

Management engagement with the workforce and feedback on suggestions for improvement. Recognition and appreciation award.

Reinforce our mission – ‘Work Safe Home Safe’

Provide updates on social media.

Hegarty Demolition

Hegarty Demolition are supporting the CIF Safety week and will be inviting guest speakers to deliver safety talks throughout the week.

All Posters issued by CIF will be placed on canteen walls in all Hegarty Demolition sites.

TBTs throughout the week will focus on topics raised by the CIF.

KDK Scaffolding

Toolbox Talks given daily on the topic relevant for that day to all sites, yard and offices.

Daily mini quiz with a prize for each day – 1 winner for site and 1 for yard/office.

Overall draw for a prize at end of week.

Monday 22nd October : Working Safely at Height

Tuesday: Positive Mental health

Wednesday: Working Safely Near Utilities

Thursday: Working Safely with Hazardous Substances

Friday: Working Safely with Vehicles

Glenveagh Properties have invited KDK to their site in Greystones on Monday 22nd to do a short presentation on working at height in relation to scaffolding. Safety Director Robert Kelly will deliver this presentation.

Kelbuild Ltd

We will be holding safety talk on site to highlight safety on site

DigitalTwin Technology GmbH (Germany)

We are developing the digital twin of mechanised tunneling. This helps for the safety of underground workers by not be physically available during the time when it is not recommended but required for inspection. So, they can be virtually inspect the TBM and tunnel on real-time. We called this service, VaaS (Virtual as a Service) by Tunnelware.

BAM Ireland

BAM Ireland this year will be participating in Construction Safety Week in the following ways:
– Organising a toolbox talk every day on every project on the subject of the day
– Showing the construction week films on our screens on our projects
-Navigation Square project in Cork will have Access and Forklift Services doing a presentation on the safe use of MEWPS, Hilti Ltd. demonstrating their products to reduce silica dust exposure and the RSA will have a presentation on Driving Safely for Work.
-Participating actively in the social media campaign

John Paul Construction

John Paul construction will hold stand downs for Safety week each day on each site with a programme of activities planned across our sites to follow the daily themes for the week. We will share information on our progress during the week.

Holden

Holden will reward positive safety behavior and actions over the weeks leading up to Safety Week and by presenting awards during that week.

BMD & Co Ltd

BMD & Co Ltd Cork will continue to show our support for the Construction Safety Week 2018 by holding various events on our sites including Pfizer, Novartis, Hovione and Eli Lilly Kinsale etc..

Some of the activities are as follows:

Stand down on all our sites to explain the background to Construction Safety Week and engage all site supervisors in the activities during the campaign.

BMD have organised a Psychologist with the HSE South to deliver a Mental Health awareness presentation on one of our larger sites.

BMD have developed a safety crossword that will be issued to all BMD employees to complete. They can enter the crossword draw for the chance of winning “one for all” voucher-see attached-(any company can use).

Also during the construction safety week BMD will discuss the different themed day topics during the Construction safety week.

Barideck Services

We would like to have possibly a health speaker dealing with work/life balance, a H&S based quiz on Friday based on daily toolbox talks given that week on each of the daily topics. Possibly have a prize like a carbon monoxide detector, home fire extinguisher/fire blanket and a nice treat of course!

Shareridge

Shareridge are proud to partner with the CIF for Construction Safety Week 2018 and will be carrying out the following during Construction Safety Week 2018:

-We will display the official CIF Safety Week posters in all of our site offices.

-We will encourage participation from all involved on our sites

-We will promote the Safety Week activities across our sites through daily Toolbox Talks on the following topics:Monday- Working Safely at Height

Monday- Working Safety at Height

Tuesday- Positive Mental Health

Wednesday- Working Safely Near Utilities

Thursday- Working Safety with Hazardous Substances

Friday- Working Safely with Vehicles

We will be paying particular attention to Working near Utilities

-On Tuesday we will provide refreshments for all site operatives across all of our sites to coincide with the Positive Mental Health Toolbox Talk

-We will be actively promoting the CIF safety week across our social media platforms.

John Murray & Sons Building Contractors Ltd

JMSL will hold white board meetings each day focusing on open discussions around safety week themes.

M&P Construction Ltd / Walmac

M&P Construction / Walmac are celebrating 25 years in business and will be using Construction Safety Week as an opportunity to promote the company objectives on Health and Safety and promote an inclusive positive H&S culture from within the company.
Also, throughout Safety Week 2018 we plan to:
-Discuss the daily topics of safety week 2018
-Circulate a copy of the CIF safety week daily topic posters
-We intend to do daily Tool Box Talks on site encouraging participation from sub-contractors and workforce alike

ACB Group

ACB Group, specialists in Design & Construct External Envelope & Internal Cladding Systems are delighted to participate in this year’s CIF Construction Safety Week.
Throughout the week we will be reinforcing our emphasis on Health & Safety involving all staff across the company by:
• Putting up safety posters to raise awareness & promote safety week to our employees and subcontractors
• Reiteration of the importance of using ACB Site Safe App and Auditing tools daily to promote safe behaviour on site.
• Promotion of near miss reporting by all staff.
• Carrying out toolbox talks on the various subjects each day
• Director Safety Audit & Toolbox Talk
• Refresher Working at Height training
• Supplier Toolbox Talks
• Fire Safety Training

Harold Engineering Ltd

Harold Engineering Ltd are delighted to take part in CIF Health and Safety Week for the second year. This year we have two schedules in operation. One for those out on the road and one for administration staff. The plan in place for all covers Housekeeping, Mental and Physical Health, Hygiene and Driving Safely. We also have Electrical Safety and Working at Heights for engineers and Ergonomics for admin staff.

During this week, we have organised a guest speaker to talk about general safety on site. We will focus on Mental Health and Physical Health by launching our Employee Assistance Programme. We will be encouraging a short walk before lunch, and providing information on healthy eating. We are providing the flu vaccine for all employees. We will email the information received by CIF daily among others.

Cobec Engineering

Cobec Engineering will be holding a safety talk morning for our on-site staff at Block i Central Park, Leopardstown. We have invited guest speakers from one of our power tool vendors, HILTI Ireland,to give an in-depth review/safety procedure walk-through of all our power tools on the site.

Bennett (Construction) Ltd

Bennett Construction are proud to once again partner with the CIF in promoting this year’s Construction Safety Week.
This week will be used to highlight good safety practice on all our projects. Bennetts will hold stand downs for Safety week each day on each site with planed toolbox talks during the week.

mac-group

mac-group is proud to Partner with CIF for Construction Safety Week 2018.

Health and Safety on our sites is culturally ingrained – it’s endemic. This is a key objective of our Management Board that has been achieved through continual systemic fortification of safety attitudes, and by investing in creative ways to achieve buy-in from operatives. When safety is second nature, there is rarely a need to enforce sanctions for breaches.

The wellbeing of all our staff is vital, during health & safety week we plan to:

Promote the safety systems that have been introduced across the organisation.

Produce a piece on Health & Safety in our monthly newsletter.

Promote the daily topics across our social media.

“Theatre at Work” will perform their “Fallout” adaptation for all staff on one of our current sites. This workshop engages people in the benefits of safe practices; overcoming key challenges in changing behaviour and culture by generating awareness, understanding and ultimately ownership

Lenmac Services

Lenmac Services will hold stand down Toolbox talk for Safety week each day on all sitePrint large banners advertising the upcoming event and display
Guest speakers on the dangers of chemicals
Monday – Working at Height
Tuesday – Positive mental health ,
Wednesday – Working close to Moving Machinery
Thursday – Working with chemicals
Friday – Working at Height

Conway Engineering

Conway Engineering are delighted to support Construction Safety Week from 22nd to 26th October 2018.

As an Employer, we have invested time and money to drive improvements, endeavouring to ensure all workers can work safely on our Construction Projects.

We view Construction Safety Week as an opportunity to take stock of our safety procedures and work together to drive home the positive safety message.

We have a number of initiatives planned throughout the week across the company and each day we will hold a discussion session for each of the following themes:

CJK Engineering

During the week CJK Engineering will be carrying out daily stand-downs across all our projects, with our staff and contractors to highlight the daily topics and raise awareness in Safe Working at Height, Positive Mental Health, Safe Working Near Utilities, Working Safely with Hazardous Substances and Working Safely with Vehicles.

We intend to utilise the week to remind all our personnel of the importance of not only working safely on our own sites but also instilling that ethos into others to ensure construction projects become a less hazardous environment for everyone.

John Cradock Ltd

Monday: Safety stand-down across all sites for Construction Safety WeekWorking at heights on our site in Clonmel where we are currently constructing a precast concrete reservoir for Irish WaterDriving for Work: toolbox talk across all sites with information from the RSAHazardous substances: across all sites relating to working with concrete specificallyUnderground services & utilities: safety talk with information provided by Shorcontrol, our safety training provider on location of underground services and excavations where existing services are present

Clancy

Clancy are proud to partner with CIF for construction safety week to ensure our industry promotes the best safety standards.
We will kick start the safety week early on Friday 19th with the RSA & Garda Siochana delivering toolbox talks on road safety/driving for work to our staff and contractors in Glen Haven.
All Clancy site projects will have their own scheduled events for CIF safety week.
To include:
• Daily tool box talks and safety posters in line with the CIF safety week topics
• Guest speaker promoting mental health and wellbeing
• Guest speaker on working near Utilities
• Guest Speaker on Driving for work
• Daily Safety videos and workshops on the topic of the day

RPS

We intend to distribute a multiple choice quiz sheet with questions across a wide range of construction-related issues which we feel are particularly relevant to the types of typical activities carried out on this site. One 4 all vouchers will be given to the correct answer sheet(s) drawn.

We would hope that the quiz questions will give rise to a conversation about construction safety among the workforce across a range of issues and by doing so improve employee engagement in safety procedures.

We hope to have some practical demonstrations, talks and other activities on our pharmaceutical waste water treatment plant upgrade site in Co. Cork site on construction safety which we will also support and help to advertise on our project. Over the course of the week we will have the various CIF Safety Week posters printed off and posted in various locations. Companies involved in our project will conduct safety stand-downs daily with a toolbox talk about each daily theme.

Howley Civils

As we are predominantly a plant based civil engineering company we will be focusing largely on people plant interface and the dangers associated with this method of works. Interactive talks will be held with our workforce to demonstrate and highlight the danger associated with this type of work.

Ayrton Group

Ayrton Group are delighted to be associated with CIF Safety Week.

We have arranged and agreed various initiatives with our large client base for this week.

This includes High Level Safety Audits, topic specific tool box talks, competitions, colouring competitions for children of construction site workers, fire drills, Safety Observation Reports (SOR’s) and so on.

All of this should help highlight our accident prevention approach on these sites with our clients

Cleary Doyle Construction Ltd

Cleary Doyle Construction Ltd will be covering Mental Health as this is a big agenda at present.He hope to have a speaker from Pieta House coming to our Morehampton Road Site in Donnybrook, Dublin 4 whereby all site members will attend.We will be erecting CIF Construction Week Posters on all our sites.We will be completing Management Briefings on this topic on all other sites.

P&D Lydon

Murphy Surveys Ltd

Murphy Surveys are delighted to work in partnership with the CIF as part of Construction Safety Week 2018.
At Murphy Surveys we foster a culture and environment where we put health, safety and wellbeing first, and we’re continually looking at ways in which we can strengthen our existing processes and training programmes.
During Construction Safety Week and in addition to our normal safety procedures, we’ll be running a series of initiatives including daily employee safety campaigns to raise the awareness of health and safety issues. Our Health and Safety Officer will also be onsite visiting our main construction projects, engaging with our staff and other parties to support best practice.

CAIRN PLC

Cairn Homes are actively taking part in Safety Week again this year. We will be running safety talks daily on each of our 9 live sites throughout the week. The following H&S promotional activities will be carried out on all sites.

A new H&S promotional poster will be revealed each day based on the assigned topics,

Other H&S promotional messages will be posted in the site compounds

Spot prizes are awarded throughout the week for safe work practices observed, (prizes are sponsored by the contractors)

A breakfast morning is hosted by each site for all the workers on that site. (day to be confirmed)

O'Dwyer Safety Services

OSS Ltd will be taking part in CSW by holding a Safety Presentation on the Safe Use of MEWPS on Friday 26th October 2018 at 8am. Refreshments will be served from 7.30am in Unit H2 Eastway Business Park, Ballysimon LimerickThe Presentation will include:
• Documentation Requirements
• Understanding Decals
• Emergency Planning • Harness & Lanyard Use- Differentiating between Work restraint, fall arrest and work position
• Bad practices/ Operational Techniques

This event is free and open to all- Employers, Employees, Safety Officers, MEWP Operators etc

Richard Nolan Civil Engineering Ltd

Richard Nolan Civil Engineering Ltd plan to roll out a series tool boxes talks specific to each day of CSW 2018 across our sites.

These will be briefed by our safety team in connection with the RNCE project management teams across the organisation.

RNCE will also display the CSW 2018 posters across all noticeboards in RNCE head office.

CField Construction Ltd

CField are happy to once again partner CIF for Construction Safety Week 2018. Safety is CField’s number one priority and our excellent safety record highlights our commitment to our staff and contractor’s well-being. We are extremely proud to have achieved certification to ISO 45001:2018, the world’s first International Standard for Occupational Health and Safety, which was awarded in June this year, becoming one of the first companies in Europe to achieve accreditation.

Our safety Week Activities include:

Friday 19th October

Safety Talk by Guest Speaker from HSA at Imperial Hotel, Cork to members of our supply chain and CField staff

Hackett Health & Safety

I will be carrying out toolbox talks with all my client sites. Highlighting the need to get prepared for the darker winter months. I also encourage all subcontractors to refresh their high-vis during safety week, especially ground workers, labourers and civil contractors.

We will be carrying out daily information sessions toolbox talks on these topics across our sites.

Monday: Traffic management, notices, routes and the rules.

Tuesday: When and why High visibility clothing? When does your employer have replace high viz equipment?

Wednesday: Underground services, locating, recording and documenting.

Thursday: Review of incidents in the past months (if any)

Friday: Safety let’s all get home safe.

Stewart Construction

On site manual Handling training for Stewart and contractors staff.
Health Surveillance on Site via the CWHT
Daily Tool box talks
Site safety Inspections by Senior Management
Safety Talks on Driving for work delivered by a Road Safety Expert from the RSA

GRETB

We intend to get instructors and trainees involved in the activities during the week. Our instructors will show videos from the website and download the different activities. We also hope to have a stand in our canteen for construction safety week.

Gem Group

In addition to holding our daily Site Safety Stand-Downs and giving detailed briefings on the topics for the week we will also be;

Awarding those “caught working safely by GEM” by giving a daily prize on all sites of an exclusive Sioen Genova Hi-Viz Softshell type jacket

Carrying out daily “Hazard Hunts” on all sites and addressing issues on the spot

Awarding an overall prize (all-4-one) voucher on all sites on the Friday to the operative considered to be a standard bearer in promoting Site Safety

Height for Hire

Make our Tool Box presentation available to all free of charge
Generate awareness throughout our social media channels

Modern Homes Ireland (MHI)

Monday: Training DVD on the “cost of accidents” in the workplace, Falls from Heights

Tuesday: Mental Health TBT

Wednesday : Workshop on the procedures to follow before excavating onsite

Thursday: Workshop on how to identify and controlling hazardous substances using SDS information

Friday: Information day on the movements of site vehicles and also a training DVD on driving for work.

O'Shea's Electrical

O’Shea’s Electrical is proud to partner with the CIF for construction safety week 2018.
Daily Tool Box Talks will be delivered on our various projects in line with the CIF Safety Week Topics.
Engage our supply chain to carry out demonstrations/talks on various topics throughout the week.

Haughton & Young

Haughton and Young will be using this Safety Week as an opportunity to build on our awareness and promote a positive Safety culture in our workplace.
It is our aspiration to promote the 5 themes set out by the CIF.
We will take 5 minutes each day to reflect on each of the topics.
We also have Specific Super Toolbox talks arranged for.
• Substance Abuse
• Plant movement

MMD Construction Ltd (Cork)

MMD Construction are delighted to once again partner with the CIF for this year’s Construction Safety Week.

The company is using the CIF Construction Safety Week to reinforce our commitment to maintain a safe and healthy workplace for all employees and sub-contractors.

In addition to our normal safety initiatives and tool box talks, we will be carrying out presentations and demonstrations covering the following topics on a number of our sites;

Monday – Working at Height presentation and demonstration (In conjunction with Height for Hire)

Kiernan Engineering

Kiernan Engineering will be using Construction Safety Week as an opportunity to highlight the hazards and risks on a construction site, and promote a positive H&S culture from our office.
Throughout Safety Week 2018 weplan to:

Tritech Engineering

Tritech Engineering will be conducting the following activities for the 2018 Safety week:

Fire Safety Training will be taking place with our Mechanical Division at the Indeed site within the Capital Dock Project.

Our Electrical Division will be undergoing Lock Out Tag Out Training in multiple locations.

Director Toolbox Talks will be carried out at numerous locations with the companies 4 Directors taking part and promoting safety with our Mechanical, Electrical and Maintenance Divisions.

All employees will be participating in a Companywide P.P.E compliance competition for the entire month of October. The winning site will be revealed during Safety week with each employee on the site receiving a prize.

Tritech Engineering’s Site Management Team including our Project Managers, Engineers and Design Team will be taking part in a Crane Lift briefing session.

Safety week will be used to actively promote positive mental Health, this will be driven by our Safety Committee including our 6 Site Safety Representatives.

Shay Murtagh

To make the start of Construction Safety Week all team will stand down before the week begins, explaining to everybody what Construction Safety Week is all about and to commemorate those who have been seriously injured or lost their lives in our industry. Shay Murtagh mission for CSW is to underline the importance of safety and actively promote our current safety culture. We will circulate information to all divisions throughout the company and will be focusing on the main topic headlines as well as:

• working as a team,
• hazard watch
• and the 6 S`s programme

We will be actively promoting safety week across all social media platforms

McGrattan & Kenny Ltd

Monday – Bring supplier (Speedy Hire) on site to do TBT on Working at Height on the specific equipment we have on site.
Tuesday: Guest speaker TBT on being Alcohol Aware
Wednesday: TBT on Safe Plans of Action when working with gas in a live building. Tyre safety check by local garage (Malahide Tyres) of all cars in site car park, including client office car park, and distribution of cards with a vehicle winter ready checklist.
Thursday: TBT on recognising and dealing with hazardous substances.
Relevant tweets and Site Appropriate WhatsApp messages will be sent each day.

CityBuild

CityBuild will be promoting and participating in the CIF Construction Safety Week 2018 on our sites.
We plan to circulate and post copies of the CIF safety week daily themed posters on sites to raise awareness of Health & Safety on an ongoing basis.

Portwest

On Friday, October 26th the two organisations together with BAM Construction will deliver a Working at Heights Safety workshop in the Bolands Mill / Google site.

A demonstrator from CSME will be suspended from height using will deliver safety tips and rescue techniques.

An online competition for safety workwear and training courses will also be circulated on social media.

LMC Group

LMC Group are delighted to work in partnership with the CIF in achieving their mission for Construction Safety Week 2018. This week will be used as an opportunity to highlight good safety practice that is currently being used and to highlight the importance of Health & Safety for all our team members and supply chain members.

Over the 5 days LMC Group will be running theme specific safety workshops and toolbox talks including:Monday, 22nd October – Working Safely at HeightTuesday, 23rd October – Positive Mental Health talk for all LMC staffWednesday, 24th October – Working Safely Near UtilitiesThursday, 25th October – Working Safely with Hazardous SubstancesFriday, 26th October – Working Safely with Vehicles

Wills Bros Ltd

Wills Bros Ltd are proud to partner with the CIF for Construction Safety Week 2018.
Launch of Construction Safety Week 2018 on all Wills Bros Ltd sites.Monday 22nd October– Working Safely at Height- Workshop on loading and unloading deliveries and working at height on our Skerries site. Toolbox talk on working safely at height on all other sites.Tuesday 23rd October– Positive Mental Health- Positive Mental Health talk to site teams. Information leaflets provided to staff. Posters displayed on site notice boards.Wednesday 24th October- Working Safely near Utilities- Go through the Permit to Dig procedure, and how to review a drawing, scan the ground, and mark out a known service correctly on all sites.Thursday 25th October– Working Safely with Hazardous Substances – Poster on Working with Hazardous Substances to be displayed and discussed on all site.Friday 26th October- Working Safely with Vehicles- Toolbox Talk on working near plant and machinery. Is your car winter ready? Pocket Guide for Safe Driving, check on vehicle defect report books/daily plant checksheets.

Roadstone Ltd

As a company Roadstone Ltd are extremely proud to participate in the CIF Construction Safety Week 2018

Throughout Safety Week 2018 Roadstone Ltd plan to:

• We will hold discussion on the daily topics of safety week 2018
• We will circulate a copy of the CIF safety week daily topic posters
• We will have safety briefings where we will show the construction week films
• We will hold daily Tool Box Talks on site
• We will use safety week to promote a positive mental Health attitude in the work place

Carey Building Contractors

Carey’s will be using the Construction Safety Week as an opportunity to drive and promote a positive Safety Culture across all sites. A safety competition will be run on each site with the aim of gaining active participation from all personnel on site. Also a suggestion box will be set up to gain feedback. A copy of the CIF Safety weekly daily topics will be issued to site and a toolbox carried out on such topics.

Health checks for employees have been organised and will be completed by the end of CSW18

New Safety Forman Checklists implemented during CSW18

‘Ross crew member of the month’ as voted by the employees will go to the most safety conscientious crew member

We will be involved in the daily awareness campaign through social media on the importance of Construction Safety #CIFSafety18

Use of our Safety Slogan ‘Expect the unexpected, know your risks’

Daily Safety E-zine issued to all employees on the Safety Topic of the day & CIF poster

Paul Flynn Construction

Paul Flynn Construction are delighted to be involved in Construction Safety Week 20158. We plan to hold various talks and focus on safety, wellbeing, positive mental health and working together as a team

PBC Builders

On this years Construction Safety week we intend to push home safety and look to improve the overall preconception of what safety is and why the industry needs more of it.
For each day of the week we have arranged awareness and Competency training as much as possible. This will be certified and accredited in most cases.
The aim is grow our Training matrix helped with the weeks initiative of the Construction Safety week 2018.

Our current Schedule for the week is;Monday, 22nd October – Working Safely at Height
• Opening Briefing to be given by management on the aim of this week
• Specific Training arranged for Staff on working at Heights
• Awareness discussions on all sites throughout the dayTuesday, 23rd October – Positive Mental Health
• Local Health person is available for Positive Health discussion
• General Tool box talks on this topic added on all sitesWednesday, 24th October – Working Safely Near Utilities
• Specific Training course added Today on LUGS for staff members
• Awareness discussions & Specific Tool box talks held by trained staff on all sitesThursday, 25th October – Working Safely with Hazardous Substances
• Local Chemicals supplier to give information talk at Training room
• Tool box talks to given on all sites in relation to this topicFriday, 26th October – Working Safely with Vehicles
• Management to visit sites and look at ways to improve safety
• Driver walk around checks to be completed on all vehicles today
• Driver awareness Training to be given today
• Closing out Briefing to be given by management with overview of week

DSM Process Installations Ltd

We are running Toolbox Talks and video presentations, some topics we are focusing on are,
Wellbeing diet and sleep.
Driving for work.
Work at height.
Finishing off with a fun Safety quiz for all personnel..

Griffin Bothers Contracting

Griffin Brothers Contracting will be using construction safety week as an opportunity to highlight hazards and risks on construction sites and encourage and maintain a positive Health & Safety culture within the organisation. Griffin Brothers Contracting Ltd will carry out toolbox talks on the various topics of construction safety week 2018:
1. Work at Heights
2. Mental Health and wellbeing
3. Electricity and utilities
4. Hazardous Substances
5. Managing Vehicles

All operatives will fill out Safety Observation Reports and a prize will be presented to the best SOR received.

Avonmore Electrical Co. Ltd

We intend on holding numerous Toolbox Talks with our employees, both on-site with sub-contractors and within the Avonmore Workshop.
We will also be hosting a coffee morning in conjunction with Pieta House and their #FeelGoodWeek.
Finally, we will be circulating a company-wide Safety in the Workplace Quiz, covering all the topics of Construction Safety Week 2018.

DCS Group

Refresh and remind our dedicated team of electricians that their safety and that of their colleagues is the number 1 priority. We intend to hold tool box talks on our sites to emphasise this .

Modubuild

At Modubuild we are always committed to ensuring that all our workers can work safely on construction projects both in Ireland and across Europe.

So to coincide with this during Construction Safety Week we will run the follow safety topics on each one of the days;

Monday 22nd – Workstation set up, to include a briefing on upper limb disorders and the muscloskeletal system.

Tuesday 23rd – Communication while working with different languages.

Wednesday 24th – Rules of the road when driving abroad.

Thursday 25th Importance of Incident and Near Miss reporting.

Friday 26th – CPR and AED demonstration and Practice.

Duffy Construction

Duffy Contractors will be using the CIF Construction Safety Week as an opportunity to promote a positive Safety Culture with our company. Duffy Contractors plan to hold daily Toolbox Talks in line with CIF Safety Week topics and also plan to have a specific talk on Driving for Work/Vehicle Safety.

A suggestion box will be in place during the week to ensure all employees can give relevant feedback on all Health and Safety matters both on and off site

Chris Mee Group

The Chris Mee Group (CMSE Safety Consultants Training) is the largest provider of Health & Safety, EHS, Environmental and Carbon Emissions services in Ireland.
Throughout Construction Safety Week, to promote health and safety awareness we will be
• Displaying the promotional posters on each site
• Sharing and promoting Safety Week 2018 & each topic across all our digital platform
• Promoting our safety suggestion / observations box tool among all Personnel.
• Offering heavy discounts for all of our online construction related courses such as Working at Height, Confined Space, Asbestos Awareness, Abrasive Wheels and more! Click here for full list of courses: https://www.cmse.ie/online-health-and-safety-courses/

Murphy International Ltd

Murphy International Ltd. are proud to partner with the CIF in promoting Construction Safety Week 2018. We will actively promote Safety Week across all our premises and sites by holding:

Titan Building Contractors

Issue of New PPE to direct staff and Sub Contractors
Raise awareness of Mental Health with a briefing from Marion Kiely of Upstream Safety.
Carry out Tool Box talks on sites.

Leamore Construction Ltd

This week we will be working with the CIF initiative and hosting the theme agenda each day on all our sites, we will have a stand down for 45 minutes, where all employees will watch the CIF video of the day followed by a Q&A and additional information of the themed day handed out to employees.
This is a great a idea and we support it 100%.
We want all employees to return home safely each and every day.

Kenaidan Contractors Ltd

Kenaidan are delighted to partner with the CIF for Construction Safety Week 2018 and will be carrying out the following during Construction Safety Week 2018:

*We will display the official CIF Safety Week posters in all of our site offices and our head office.
* We will be running a on site competition for employees who make safety suggestions.
*We will promote the Safety Week activities across our sites through daily Toolbox Talks on the following topics:

Monday- Working Safety at Height
Tuesday- Positive Mental Health
Wednesday- Working Safely Near Utilities
Thursday- Working Safety with Hazardous Substances
Friday- Working Safely with Vehicles

**We will be paying particular attention to Fall from Heights

*We will be actively promoting the CIF safety week across our social media platforms.